A video is being widely shared on social media, in which two people on a bike rob an elderly Muslim man and shoot him.
The video is shared with a caption suggesting that an elderly Muslim was killed by Hindu men in India.
A social media user shared the video with a caption that reads, “Two Indian Hindutva goons on a bike tried to rob an elderly Muslim man’s motorcycle. When he resisted, they shot him dead in front of a mosque.”
SouthCheck found that the claim is false. The video old. It is from Pakistan where an elderly man was shot down by robbers for resisting snatching.
On a Google reverse image search, we found that the same video was shared by an X account on March 30, 2023. Scrolling through this X account, we found that it shared contents around Pakistan and its politics. The video is shared with a caption that reads, “Tales of the city of Karachi, without heirs . . . . The city on whose taxes the country runs? The city where speaking the truth and the right to freedom of expression is banned? People of the city without heirs . . now or never, us or who -- how long will you keep picking up the corpse.”
Further, as the Indian government has banned Pakistani sites and social media accounts, we used the VPN to search for more information. Using the VPN, we found that the same video was also shared by the Facebook page of The Express Tribune on April 1, 2023. The caption suggests that the CCTV footage shows a street robbery that happened in Karachi.
Taking a hint, we searched with relevant keywords and found that the incident was also reported by The International News on March 26, 2023. The report stated that an elderly man, 65-year-old Rehman Baba, was shot dead on Tariq Road, Karachi, while resisting a motorbike snatching. Three others, Mir Habib (50), Nasrullah (25), and Abdul Malik (25), were injured in separate robbery incidents across the city, with a 19-year-old teen also wounded in Liaquatabad. This year, around 30 people have died and 145+ have been wounded resisting street crimes.
Hence, we can ascertain that the viral claim is false.